The Dillon tribune., 1887-07-01
....,uc THE QUEENS REIGN.

,., HAS Had Fifteen Foreign war"
ESs'""" rrder victoria's Rule.
49,. how many wars have we had
,,s;rc sT" the queens reign? we nave aaa
duInk; - New Zealand, and one OF tho
.s.ar, W.. - engaged in that war was obliged
dncsIs; sI.;t % .Sat the New Zealanders were
70 o!:ua,r oaIS' richt and We entirely wrong.
en'I e,V Sa,e had three wars with China. We
s ws ~ 1,,h, war not long ago, made abso-
;sts,r n hy a man without any orders from
~. .s;.'c country, a man who professed to be
ua.i,v uJ influenced by the Christian faith
Iss 'od ,o,ioion. That cost us a great many
=; r..,;sh lives, and we destroyed the Zulu
.. l..;on at the same time bringing con-
. s.:o. ;nto South Africa. We have had
os;nd war. in which ono Of the Nap
~. sss' ras concerned, q war for which he
a not the slightest justification or in
srction from this country. Then there
49, the Great Gikh war, by which the
n.r;anb was annexed to the English do
.;n;cn in India. There were also two
sfs;,an wars, for which there was not u
..s;cla of justification, in one Of which .
rhole English army was destroyed. Then
90 have had three Burmese wars, the
,,scond ~ Of which, recollect. was got up
~ nretences absolutely fraudulent and
se.ndalous Then we come to the Ciimean
rar. the really tig war Of our time,
,hos,eh il did not last very long. But as
N iis severity, and the mortality caused
H. n 10 man IL able to make an accurate
computation.
Abook written by q French general
who recently visited the Crimea. in con-
nActon with the cemeteries there. esti-
mated that the bodies Of ESQ, 900 men are
there. l believe the Russians alone buried
more than 100, 900 on the north side Of
Sevastopol. Kinglake in his history esti-
mates that 1000, 900 men lost their lives
il that struggle, q number about equal
to every adult man in the vet city Of
London.
And what were Ill these lives socri-
iced for? Absolutely nothing whatever,
because the only apparent result was a
slight limitation put upon the Russian
government with regard to its future
feet in the Black sea, and that was sur
rendered the ,noment the Franco-Cier-
man war broke out. It was not war, be.
causc war was never declared, but We
made war, notwithstanding. TN u co,ln-
ty with which we were notorio,1sly and
Eotessedly at peace. The bomharllnent
alexandria Il is q sort Of peace which the
public Of this country have not been en-
thusiastic about. Then followed the wal
IN the Soudan, during which, at thu
lowest calculation, from 40, 900 to 80, ,OO(
lives were lost.
Ionce proposed that the foreign office
should be burned down, and it would bt
avery good thing it all its treaties were
burned with it. Conceive the cost Of thu
wars that have occurred during the reig1
1f the queen. Go hack further to tin
beginning OF what We call our parlia
mentary and constitutional system in tn
reign Of William III and you will fin'
that without one single exception the.
were absolutely unnecessary, and tina
the only result they have produced IS al
enormous national dcbt, which from tina
time to this has been extracted from tn
labor and the sweat Of millions of inc
in this country, but which should hay
remained with them for the s,lstenanc
and comfort of themselves and their fan
lies.
Fifteen wars in fifty years reign Of
peofessedly peace loving and tendt
hearted queen are hardly among II
blessings for which jubilee thanks wi
De returnc<l.--BOston Globe.